Overview

• The Prosecutor-General’s Office formally added Yale and its School of Global Affairs to the 2015 undesirable organisations list on July 8, banning any campus or program operations in Russia.
• The designation makes any Russian individual or entity that cooperates with Yale liable to criminal prosecution for supporting a banned organisation.
• Authorities allege Yale’s initiatives sought to undermine Russia’s territorial integrity, impose an international blockade and destabilise its economic foundations.
• Prosecutors claim the university offered scholarships to foreign opposition figures, including associates of Navalny’s banned Anti-Corruption Foundation, to intensify protest movements.
• The move expands Moscow’s blacklist alongside NGOs and media outlets such as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Meduza and follows accusations that Yale aided legal efforts to redirect frozen Russian assets toward Ukraine’s military.